Remember the first time you saw Sapphiron 40man? Have you felt like that lately?

Just wondering.

EDIT TO TRY TO EXPLAIN A BIT WHY I'M ASKING:

1. The fight before that took some 40 days for the top players in the world to beat. It was kind of a big deal at the time.

2. It was the first time they'd had an animation like that.

3. Back then, seeing a new boss model was a really big deal. Even in TBC only so many people had seen this boss. Seeing a new boss was a milestone for any player back then.

Not trying to be a condescending jack***, but do you understand now? If I had just said "Remember the first time you saw Sapphiron? Have you felt like that lately?" - then it wouldn't be referencing seeing a new model, a new boss, a hard boss to reach (Heroic-only mode, basically, back then). In WOTLK that was a boss model that was widely re-used outside that raid, and it wasn't a special thing to see him. There was no "OMG guys, we're at SAPPHIRON!"

Even in TBC, on my backwater server, Kel'Thuzad only went down twice, afaik.

If by that, you mean the feeling in which you can see the boss slowly form in front of you, into a big explosion of awesome battle sauce, I felt like that seeing KJ for the first time, but other than that not for a while.

Obviously I wouldn't want Blizzard to overuse that, but I'm surprised at how rare it is to see, it truly does make the encounter feel that much cooler.

If by that, you mean the feeling in which you can see the boss slowly form in front of you, into a big explosion of awesome battle sauce, I felt like that seeing KJ for the first time, but other than that not for a while.

Obviously I wouldn't want Blizzard to overuse that, but I'm surprised at how rare it is to see, it truly does make the encounter feel that much cooler.

I remember when walking in for the first time thinking it was empty and as we moved forward was amazed by what the swirling bones turned into. Reminds me of doing Ulduar and heading to Kologarn's room and watching him come out of the ground like that. I remember having a friend over who saw me walk in there and go "wtf just happened, how did he get there"

Really? My server constantly had people running 40 man Naxx in BC. It may not have been current content but people still ran it every week for things like the shoulder enchants for alts etc. I never did naxx 40 in Vanilla, I did do it regularly in BC though. Not quite as epic but it was still a lot of fun to see the raid. Seeing kil'jaeden die and get sucked back through the sunwell is still one of the most memorable boss raid events for me though.

Not since Ulduar 25. And probably even not since Sunwell 25. Sunwell was where it was at, along with all the other TBC raids because they were truly huge and epic. Now, everything is just bleh. Pretty bland, yet there are some fun fights.

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yeah, I raided MC and BWL back in vanilla. Hardest part of MC was getting a full raid group, we ended up clearing it with about 25/30 ppl. BWL was a step up though, you actually needed to have 40 people mostly not afk to get past the first two bosses. I much prefer BC/Wotlk/MoP raids to vanilla ones.